skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon is likely playing a longer game, just like the 'make a luxury car', 'make a better slightly cheaper car', 'make a normal car' line of thought where you hope to earn enough at each stage to make the whole factory, cell production, car, production, charging network, governmental interaction viable (economically, politically, environmentally, socially).

After it's possible to do it and not lose everything in the process, then you can do the "let's team up with the competition that didn't thing of this themselves"-game. Because that is what it boils down to: before the whole Tesla and Musk thing it was not really a thing to have a good all-electric car experience. Heck, even a good software experience wasn't available (in any car). It takes quite a beating for the other car manufacturers the get off of their collective asses en start doing something new. (and no, creating a different design isn't new, they have been re-designing for decades - new would be a paradigm shift or beginnings of a shift)
When I graduated college with a CS degree Revature was the first job offer I had at the time for a development job. Luckily for me, I already an IT job so I wasn't in a rush, I had found another shortly after, and I read their contract and told them not so kindly, to fuck themselves. There are a few companies I have seen that do this process as well, where they have a steep "quitting fee".

So my experience with Revature, I am not sure if I even applied to them or if they scraped my CV off of Indeed at the time. The "job interview" was a 20 minute phone call. It included a painfully easy trivia type quiz with 5-10 basic programming questions "What is the differences betwee == vs === in Javascript" level questions. The recruiter said "Wow great, we would like to hire you". The contract was for $50k a year, and with $25k quit clause if I left the company for any reason before 2 years for anyone but one of their clients, AND this was in DC so a painfully low salary. So basically I they put you through a short training program, find you a job as a contractor, they make >$50k a year selling you as a contractor, if you leave before your slavery is over they get even more money, if you leave for the company you are working they probably get even more money. I told them no, they tried to hard sell me telling me it was normal, I told them to fuck themselves and to not call me again.

I could see how someone desparate for a job might fall into this. Total Scam and those companies should be forcibly shut down by the government.
Best part is, it doesn't collect any sort of data. App doesn't even have internet permission, app size is in few kbs.
The phrase “market failure” often implies that left to their own devices people can’t find a way to satisfice wants and needs through the normal process of selling, buying and owning. My impression of California housing (and likely Seattle too) is that there are other factors at play and that the “market” isn’t the thing causing the “failure.”
Shorting a stock 140%+ is absurd. If anything, time and technology (in this case) caught up with the old game on Wall St.
That's right. Universities' "institutional review boards" (IRBs) don't permit scholars to tell subjects that they are delivering very heavy shocks. Jerry Burger of Santa Clara University took this point up in his replication article (which was necessarily only a partial replication).
This is really cool, but it's clear that the person requesting the SQL has to know whether the generated SQL is correct for it to be of use.

If I'm a non-technical user and I ask a plain-language question and the generated SQL is incorrect, it's likely going to give the wrong answer -- but unless it's terribly wrong ("Syntax error", truly implausible values) the user may not know that it's wrong.

So I see this as more of a tool to speed up development than a tool that can power end users' plain-language queries. But who knows? Maybe GPT-4 will clear that hurdle.
For YouTube I kind of still see a point, if only to not make scraping videos dead simple by not just having the plain URL of the video file in the html (yes there are still tools out there).

But twitter is so ducking ridiculous in that regard. At its core it is a web site to share 280 character long strings, but as of recently you cannot do this anymore without JavaScript! They shut down the legacy page at the end of 2020 that was blazing fast and a pleasure to use. And what irritates me the most about their modern Js based mobile page is that it frequently happens that I tap a twitter link on HN which takes forever to load, then it shows two blue spinners one at the top and one in the center and then after another eternity it says "this content isn't available". Then I hit reload, the whole thing repeats and this time the 280 characters display just fine. How? Just how do you end up with this?
> Like one place I did well on 3/4 coding challenges and kind of bombed the system design interview. None of these companies will look at that and say, well this person has potential let's give them a chance. They all will say, well they don't raise the bar so let's just keep our dozens of needed roles unfilled.

A bad engineering hire can result in worse outcomes than leaving a role unfilled because developers exert so much leverage through software. The risk when hiring developers is that they will create highly-leveraged negative value.

Taking your system design example, a poorly-designed system can:

- cost millions of dollars directly by failing its functional requirements

- cost millions more indirectly by being inefficient

- divert energy from other initiatives to fix

- dissuade other engineers from working at the company in the future

By this, I don't mean to say that we should demand interviewing perfection, or that the industry's interviewing process can't be improved. But it's important to recognize that "having potential" includes the potential for both good, and dramatically bad, outcomes.
Are they sharing that standard or putting up obstacles around it?
Maybe it's because of those people that got trapped in the IKEA forever....
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008

^ It's fiction. I just thought people here are the kind that would enjoy it.
yes, but this someone probably would like to turn a profit as well and not be sitting on a pennystock?
Ruined our day as well.

This price hike in combination with the change of how they count users made it a 1100% price increase for us.

It went from having active devs in the organization being paid users to "anyone with guest access to a subproject" requiring a seat.

It also went from "you can have guests at no cost" to "you must pay seats for guest access".

And it wants payment on bot accounts as well, as they ALSO use a seat.

So, our organization went from 7 active users and 14 in the organization, to suddenly requiring 30+ seats. This includes us paying for people who are ONLY involved in the Open Source projects we have.

And then the price hike on top of that.

Let me just say it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
They've aged since then. Maybe they can't support as much weight today as they once could.
You say it's a joke, but Tesla setting their own standard is one of the reasons they're the world's most valuable automaker (as it contributes to an amazing user experience). I understand that you may be dogmatic about the desire for open standards, but the evidence is clear it's not necessary (even with the EU requiring fast charger interoperability). My opinion is that this is very similar to those railing against software projects who have to go "fair source" instead of "open source" to protect their financial interests from others, and in the same vein, Tesla should be compensated for their investment in infrastructure.

If you don't want a Tesla, don't buy one. No one is forcing people to buy them, or to use their chargers (fast DC or otherwise). If jurisdictions desire Tesla to open their network for others, compensate them for their private investment they're demanding they open up.

Regardless, I appreciate the conversation and the perspective as an electric vehicle enthusiast.
It really doesn't unless you mean that it makes it harder for GME to aquire equity funding.
It's also ridiculous that some private company has to stamp out a good charging setup because nobody else will, but then has to let others use it. Granted, it would be nice if everyone would play together, but they didn't and they don't.

Some heavy-handed top-down inter-organisational group with top-down design-by-committee ideas is going to be a shitshow too, so now the question becomes: what IS a good solution going to look like?
If its anything like how it works in most other oil and gas sectors, they transfer the well infrastructure to shell companies for next to nothing when they are at or near the end of their useful production life, that then promptly go bankrupt.

Now the big companies don't have to pay for clean up, magic.
Thank you. I will check these out.

I intended to read House of Suns because it both comes highly recommended, and it is only a single novel (this is very important). A trilogy is pushing the limits against my priorities at the moment. But I accidentally started reading Revelation Space - easy to do on an eReader, especially when otherwise completely unfamiliar with the author - and before I realised my mistake I had already read half the book. And down the rabbit hole I went.
> majority of people who are in positions of power in the financial industry barely care about retail.

Yeah, I agree.
I should have worded it more like that.
Really? You seemed pretty willing to defend a Christian (cult?) publisher by completely ignoring the faults of the article to attack criticism based on their religion. Knowing if a publisher has a clear incentive can help determine how accurate and well-sourced their claim is.
Not only was there no critical mass... CCS network didn't even exist until after Tesla had already deployed half a dozen Superchargers in California. And most of the CCS stations deployed before about 2017/2018 were the 50kW variety (in comparison to the 120kW Superchargers of the time).
My point has nothing to do with the equipment. It's the cultural celebration of warfare and the white washing of the true horrible nature of war. "This gun is f'n awesome" is but a symptom of the true problem.

I'm not ignorant to human nature and our inherent trend towards conflict, I'm just somewhat sad that our culture in particular throws the metaphorical gas on the flame.
Google admits to 'experiments' which remove some media sites from search results
I agree that MOOCs are very removed from the reality of building something. The unknown territory, the false starts, the unknown unknowns, gradual refinements, new requirements.. It's a whole different field in itself. Which is adult/pro life I guess.

It also leads to a vastly different feeling, it's not knowing for the sake of knowing, it's know-how. It has social value.

ps: this brings a question, is there a way to teach that knowledge beside jumping in the pool ?
Yup. I really felt like I "knew" people on forums. I recognized their names. Our inside jokes were ones we had created.

These days I never recognize a single username on any forum (HN and Reddit, mostly), even tiny sub-reddits. The culture there is created by the masses, so there are plenty of in-jokes only because tens of thousands of people repeat them every week.

Twitter is the closest I have to a site where I recognize a stranger's voice and opinions. But that's typically one-sided -- even in small hobbiest groups, it tends to be the well-known producers talking to everyone else.
The current climate is one of not allowing people to "start a new website". Sure, one can quite technically run their own platform, but the minute it becomes significant there seems to be a risk of shutdown via external pressure. Deplatforming is a very dangerous tool, the likes of which I think should only be reserved for the most heinous crimes. I have zero qualms about deplatforming a child molester, for example. But there was just a story on here about how someone lost their job simply for having accounts on Gab and Parler. Not for any content they posted, but for the mere existence of the accounts.

Even as recently as the 80s and 90s, liberals were much more likely to be anti-censorship. Now people who claim that label are all for shutting down "bad" things, without understanding that "good" and "bad" are largely human constructs, and the things that are considered "good" and "bad" can and will change over time. What about in the far future when bigotry inevitably becomes commonplace and systemic in a much worse way than humanity has already seen? Do we really want to just hand these tools of suppression and control to people like that on a silver platter? The entire point of freedom of speech is supposed to transcend that sort of control.

To go on a slight tangent, it's quite similar to how many traditional Christians in America would wish for their religion to have special privileges in law, when they don't realize that it would open the door for any other religion to do the same, should their population grow to the numbers they'd need to influence policy. The very same people who would wish to make Christianity privileged would bemoan Islam one day becoming the majority religion and instituting Islamic law via those same legal mechanisms. Nobody I've talked to face to face in my area has any kind of answer to that one.
wood expansion is a big factor for wide flat pieces. Non directional wood products like MDF are used in cabinetry because they do not expand to anywhere near the same degree as solid wood. If you want to use solid wood you have to float it in panels, like you sometimes see on doors. But that adds a lot of complexity. For cabinets where you have dozens of moving pieces using MDF (or plywood) is much better for the reliability of the moving parts.
> This is not a logical sentence

It's illegal by definition. But since they can pay a fine for a net gain, you can say that they legally profit from doing something illegal.
Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
It's time for another go at this question; we had interesting ideas the last time. What do you wish someone would build, either for your personal use or for your business?
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You are correct. I should have worded it more like the sibling comment.
> Basic layout of things in a way that copes with different screen sizes/orientations is a surprisingly black art sometimes.

I've been manually crafting HTML/CSS websites since 2001. Since the arrival CSS flexbox/grid, I don't know anything easier to build layouts than HTML/CSS.

I like what Fluter offers but HTML/CSS is far cleaner/easier to read and simpler.
It seems like a link is missing
Yes, quite sure. They implemented an existing protocol called DPP (Device Provisioning Protocol), more commonly branded as "Wi-Fi Easy Connect", that is a part of the 802.11 standard and implemented by more than just Google.

If Apple isn't using that, then it's them who are ignoring the standards and doing their own thing.
Having never used Gitlab, is there any advantage over Github?
The rate of people below 50% of the poverty line hasn't been doing well in recent decades either.

https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-un...
I think shorting stock is fine and I understand why taking short positions is useful in creating downward pressure on stocks. I'm angry because "the free market" is anything but free and it's people like me who have to fund bailouts for millionaire gamblers. In other words, I'm mad at our society's rules of privatized gains and socialized losses.
Non-profits don't necessarily sell anything but they've been sued by the ADA for violating the laws on accessibility.
If you find a really good tutorial by programmers who are both excellent teachers and experienced in that particular field, it beats JIT learning on a personal project in one important respect. You get exposure to the One True Way of doing things.

What do I mean? Years ago, I learned to program iOS from the Big Nerd Ranch book. The most important thing I got out of that was learning enough about the Cocoa-Touch framework that I didn't try to fight the framework. You don't get that from JIT learning. How could you?

That said, at the end of the book the authors urged the reader to go and write programs — that that was the only way to learn, after mastering the fundamentals.

A beginner should place his or trust in an expert. The reason is that the big mistake beginners make, not knowing the fundamentals, is convincing themselves way too early that they have now grasped the fundamentals.

I don't think the author and I are at odds. I agree a person can get too comfortable with MOOCs, YouTube courses, etc. But at the start, there is no substitute. And the start lasts longer than you may think.
Example: Gamestop (GME)...

Or "Gamestonk" <g> -- as Elon Musk so eloquently tweeted...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1354174279894642703

https://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?...

"A rising tide (of monetary policy) lifts all boats, er, stocks, er, stonks..."

Related:

"And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” "

-Bible, New King James Version, Revelation 6:6

https://biblehub.com/revelation/6-6.htm

https://www.bibleref.com/Revelation/6/Revelation-6-6.html
Options are valuable because they are how Wall St. deals with probabilities.

We don't actually know what a company is worth. You can imagine estimating the worth (a.k.a., "net present value") of a company based on its future dividends (or stock buybacks). But any formula will contain a lot of probabilities of when each dividend will occur, the amount, and the discount factor (that is, how much future money is worth today). So what you get is actually a distribution of how much a company is worth.

The stock market doesn't deal with distributions directly. It uses options. A call option is the ability to buy a stock at a given price called the "strike price". So, from the prices for two call options, you can infer the probability that the stock's worth is between their strike prices.
Yes, and its a scam. The american people are paying for the fund managers to get rich
MOOC in case you were wondering like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
Only teenagers?
u/DeepFuckingValue shits all over the writers narrative. Watch the video linked below if you disagree with me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZTr1-Gp74U&t=49m0s

I guess if you are not used to interacting with people who have a sense of humour about everything and don’t take life too seriously then you are going to struggle to understand what’s going on in WSB.

How can a gambler be nihilistic? Don’t you need hope to gamble?
The algorithms that all major social media sites are in large part to blame.

If the algorithms didn’t exist, the most recent would appear first.

If the algorithms were tuned differently, NLP could be used to pick out the most thoughtful and caring messages to show people, rather than the most liked or most emotionally charged.

I think any social media company using an algorithm should be responsible for what they show, since they have switched from publishing everything to picking winners and losers.
On the other hand you could argue, that "how a computer does things" is also some kind of knowledge.

For example: How to render some part of a website for example or a calculation, which uses the same formula as is used in another part of the code to calculate a number.

So with that interpretation of knowledge, you would have to avoid duplicating code. And it makes sense, because, if one day you need to change the way the computer does something, you want to avoid changing it in multiple places, because that makes it easy to forget places. This way avoiding duplicated code increases maintainability.
I think the grad student was this guy: https://twitter.com/dougfowler42 (Douglas M Fowler)

His work at Scripps matches the same research group and timeframe of when dnautics was there, and he's now a professor in UW's genomics lab. The topic described seems to fit what he was researching then, and he received a prestigious grad student award for it.
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It’s entertaining to read people like you and your exaggerated posts about the world coming to an end after a reporter was fired after their reputation was put into question.
That only works once. If the other side expects shenanigans, then the company can prepay the cleanup cost somehow, either as an ongoing tax, as upfront fee, or as an insurance pool that you pay into. There are probably hundreds of ways of structuring it.
Got it. Do you have to pay for it to use it
I'm struck by how much Ben's description of what the NYT is becoming - an opinionated, subscriber-focused institution - matches up with how I think about Substack and Patreon. I wouldn't be surprised if in the long run we basically end up with two types of news and media institutions: the advertising-focused ones who go for incredibly broad and often low-quality work, and the subscribed-focused ones who are more narrow.
TFA really only applies to basic new software topics. I'm doing a course in biochemistry right now. It's literally the recording of a course taught at OSU that the professor was extremely generous to make and post on YouTube (thank you, Dr. Ahern!). I'm not sure how I'd ever learn biochemistry without it, seeing as I'm not in college anymore.
>If you do lose your shit over it, then you are at best infantile and at worst mentally ill.

The very sad, unfortunate thing is that a lot of these authors are indeed mentally ill. A lot of the ring-leaders of these mobs openly embrace their mental illness as a personality trait (ie: listing it in their Twitter bios).

It leads to this bizarre environment where their reactions are, medically speaking, insane (ie: the reaction of someone in bipolar mania, the reaction of someone suffering from paranoia or extreme anxiety.) But there are so many insane reactions, that it becomes normalized.

And then people who don't struggle with mental illness start to mimic the insane behavior, because hey, everyone else is doing it! And it's now the best way to get internet points, collect followers, and get some profitable attention to your own books.
> so many things are designed and tested by people on T1 broadband in a downtown office

I wish. A T1 is 1.5mbit. CNN's front page is 6MB - 30 seconds at full T1 bandwidth.
Anecdotally, I signed up around last June (06/2020), and am still waiting to hear back..
Unless there's a law I haven't heard of (definitely a possibility) it would be necessary to classify it as a commerce site for the law to apply.
It also damages adults' mental health, and a large portion of my friends, family members and acquaintances are living proof of that.

The past year in particular has severely damaged not only their mental health, but their grasp on reality itself. I don't really know where we go from here, but the path we're on isn't sustainable.